@FStubbs there is an order to these things, handholding comes last, cause it is afterall what you do only once you married and want to make children. Then and only then, as anything else would be truly degenerate (and still lead to children)
ps: no clue why you put that in spoiler tags, unless its an actual spoiler (which I really doubt)
it's an actual spoiler. Yeah, I didn't believe it when I saw it either, but the fun starts next chapter. The 2nd half of next chapter, all of the following chapter, and half of the chapter after that.
Isn't this usually where they skip it, and release it as a .5 in the volume release to boost sales?.. The fact everyone seems so sure its actually happening, I'm guessing the raws are already out and confirmed?
It's very traditional in a way, in colonial America like half of the bride's were pregnant already. There was a formal system of courting so that if there was a pregnancy there would (ideally) be no doubt about who the father was.